Re:violence in games. (Score 1)

Exactly. The video games don't make people violent, it's the people who make people violent. "The video game made me do it" is not an excuse for being violent (or for anything else). People who use that excuse just want somebody to blame for their bad behavior. If you want to play a game, understand that it's only a game, and don't go crying about how it made you kill someone.

They don't sell R-rated movies to a 14 year old. They don't sell "explicit lyrics" records to 14 year old. But they'll sell an M-17 game to the same kid.

Those movies and songs should also be sold to that 14 year old. Understandably, at younger ages, it can be harder to understand reality, but really, there's a point at which people just need to be exposed to things and not sheltered all the time. In most cases, you're not protecting anybody from anything anyway, because they already know what you're trying to hide from them.